EU Decision-Making after the Lisbon Treaty, Brussel - Hoofdinhoud

This seminar provides expert analysis on the key changes that will be introduced to the European Union’s decision-making procedures through the Lisbon Treaty. The new treaty - the result of negotiations about EU institutional reform over the past decade - is now expected to come into force at the beginning of 2010 and will bring with it important innovations to EU decisionmaking.

After a broad overview of the process of treaty reform and ratification leading to the new treaty, the seminar will include presentations on key areas of institutional development: the expansion of co-decision between EP and Council through the introduction of the “ordinary legislative procedure” in the making of EU; the changes arising from the reform of comitology and the creation of a new legal instrument, the “delegated acts”; the growing role of national parliaments under the new provisions in the treaty; the changing nature of the Presidency with the arrival of the permanent EU President; and the new architecture for the management of the EU’s foreign policy arising from the changes to the role of the High Representative and the setting up of the European External Action Service. The seminar concludes with a round table discussion involving policy-makers from the European and the national level providing different perspectives on the dynamics of inter-institutional relations under the Lisbon Treaty.

The seminar is aimed at civil servants from the EU member states, at officials from the European institutions as well as representatives from third countries and other interested professionals working with the EU institutions.

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